CONSOOM the Architecture of the Past, and Our Future
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Which might be related to the fact that mental health "reform" was happening around that time and a ton of "hospitals" were built all over to contain "crazy" people.
I did some checking:
>When did asylums become extremely common in the USA? The Boom and Overcrowding (1890s–1940s)
>Stone buildings began to lose their popularity as a primary structural material in the late 19th century (specifically the 1880s and 1890s), with the decline accelerating rapidly into the early 20th century.
>The asylum system reached its absolute zenith in 1955. At that time, there were roughly 560,000 patients living in state psychiatric hospitals across the United States.
>How many people's skills for their labor were tied to stone building construction from the 1890s to 1950s? During the 1890s peak, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. alone, and several million globally, had their labor directly tied to the structural stone industry. By 1950, traditional structural stone building had virtually vanished.
It almost overlaps PERFECTLY.